AUSTRALIAN NEWS
MECHANISED MINES CLAIM FOR SIX-HOUR DAY NEWCASTLE, Sept. 16. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company has issued a statement announcing its refusal to consider claims for a six-hour day in mechanised collieries and describing the miners' demands as "repudiation in its very worst form " of the agreement reached last month between the coalowners and the Miners' Federation. The statement is of great importance, because the company controls thres or four mines where the men threatened to strike if to-day's convention of the Northern Miners' Lodge delegates endorses a proposal to precipitate militant action to secure a six-hour day at mechanised pits.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23299, 17 September 1937, Page 9
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